Based on this, researchers suggest that early homo sapiens planned for the long-term acquisition of resources earlier than previously thought. Paleolithic hunter-gatherers in South Africa would seek ...

DORDOGNE, FRANCE—La Brújula Verde reports that Paleolithic rock art in southwestern France’s Font-de-Gaume Cave has been radiocarbon dated for the first time by a team of researchers led by Ina Reiche ...

A cave wall covered with Paleolithic drawings of animals, including, from left, a bison in black facing left, a deer in red facing right, and a bison in red facing right. Researchers used a suite of ...

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Momentum Over Milestones: Success is not the destination you applaud at the finish line; it is the courage to stay aboard while the landscape blurs, the turns tighten, and the goalpost keeps moving ...

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HORTEN, NORWAY—An excavation in eastern Norway has uncovered traces of a dwelling and thousands of artifacts marking a shift some 9,000 years ago from nomadic hunting and gathering to a more sedentary ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed. A stone artifact from near the end of the ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

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